If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

I'm back up on the old desk top I built over ten years ago. Whew........

When it crapped out, the early indication was a failure in the motherboard because it wouldn't boot up. It turned out to be a head crash while writing to Windows while saving system settings during shutdown, destroying my system. I was ready to get another motherboard, but got a Dell to bridge me over while I fretted over the home built.

I was on the verge of trashing the old desktop, but thought I'd give a try at recovering the four hard drives first. So I picked up a Sabrent 3.5 hard drive enclosure (ECS-U35K) from Amazon for $33, which included shipping. I recovered three of the four hard drives. so I'll trash the bad one.

One that I recovered was the C drive with Windows XP Home Edition. On a hunch, I reinstalled Windows, and it became a very good day! I'm glad that I kept that OEM Windows disk! I already had a ½Tb Buffalo external drive, but I think I'll keep the Sabrent as another external hard drive - with removable storage. That way, I'll have more flexibility. And from now on, all important stuff goes on external drives.

Now I just have an extra Dell 745 desktop. My wife has an HP POS she does her church work on, so she doesn't need one.

Four boxes keep us free: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I am suggesting the possibility that GotNews.com might be a hoax or troll site making @#$% up. I based that comment on the PJMedia article I linked, whose description and quotes from the killer's FB...